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Boston bombing suspect visited a radical mosque in Dagestan

According to a source close to the Russian security services who specializes in religious radicalism, Tsarnaev attended services at the mosque on Kotrova Street during both of the extended visits he made to Dagestan over the past two years. That is why Russia’s Federal Security Service, the agency better known as the FSB, sent a warning to the FBI in 2011 to be aware of Tsarnaev’s possible links to extremism.

In a statement on April 19, the FBI said it had received information from an unidentified “foreign government” that Tsarnaev was “a follower of radical Islam and a strong believer, and that he had changed drastically since 2010 as he prepared … to join unspecified underground groups.” In response, the FBI said it interviewed Tsarnaev and checked its records for relevant information, but “did not find any Russia’s counterterrorism activity, domestic or foreign.”

According to the source in the regional capital of Makhachkala, who spoke to TIME on Monday, Tsarnaev was monitored by Russian counterterrorism forces for at least one month in 2011 and throughout his six-month stay in Dagestan last year. “There wasn’t enough time [in 2011] to come to any conclusions about the extent of his involvement [in Islamist extremism],” the source says, asking to remain anonymous due to the sensitivity of the matter. “So we asked our American colleagues to follow up.”

Yup. A place where a couple of evil small government white guys can get together and complain about taxes and our beloved naked emperor. I even heard one of them had a confederate flag on their trucker hat.

Except for the little girl, I would have loved to have seen them both in Dagestan. Have you ever seen an Islamic city that wasn’t a shitehole? Even Obama who was supposed to be living in some luxury compound when the reality that it was just another islamic shitehole.

…the aunt of the Boston bomb suspects, speaks from her home in the Russian city of Makhachkala and said Tamerlan struggled to find himself while trying to reconnect with his Chechen identity on his trip to Russia

Then why didn’t he move to Chechnya? They’re always looking for new suicide bombers.

Russell is ‘very distraught’ and ‘cries a lot,’ adding that she knew nothing about the bomb plot ahead of it happening.
DeLuca continued: ‘The whole family is a mess. They’re very distraught. They’re upset. Their lives have been unalterably changed.’

The photos I saw of her, she didn’t look distraught at all. And her father had a big ole smile on his face. Now one could argue that he’s happy that the sil is gone, but what did he do to rescue his daughter from this nut? Or, more importantly, his granddaughter? If they had taken her to Dirtastan, she would have grown up in poverty and sold off in marriage at age 6.